Newsweek Lays Off Dozens, Just in Time for Christmas
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The email announcement that as many as half of the people on the editorial staff are losing their jobs has drawn comments ranging from “a sad day” to “the best news I've heard all afternoon.”
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“This is a very difficult day, and one that we approach with enormous regret,” they stated. “We are working to ensure that the process is handled as sensitively as possible.”
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For the past several years, the magazine has remained in the public eye through its desperately controversial covers, including one that asked “Why Are Obama's Critics So Dumb?" back in January; another that declared Obama the “First Gay President” in May; and a recent edition that compared the president to Napoleon Bonaparte while lambasting the GOP as 'Old,' 'White,' and 'History'.
Perhaps those are one the reasons anonymous blogger Jammie stated that the downsizing of the Newsweek/Daily Beast Company was the “best news I've had all afternoon.”
After listing the troubles that business has gone through this year, Jammie asked: “Now where'd I leave that world's smallest violin?”
Anyone notice since the election, nobody is being hired anywhere but massive layoffs are occurring all over the place? Funny how that’s working out.
“You might not have a job, but you helped get Obama re-elected, and isn’t that
all that matters?" Jammie asked the former Newsweek employees.
